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After some fiddling and a few shotgun blasts to my registry, the magically re-appearing and somewhat disturbing iMedia shortcut has been laid to rest.

For anyone else suffering the wonders of “shortcuts that won’t go away”, or an application that keeps trying to repair or re-install itself when you haven’t asked it to, you may want to check out \HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\ in the windows registry, then browse through all the crazy-looking entries in there until you find the one for the offending application.

Now, me being a luddite brute and not understanding what these entries really do, I simply deleted the one containing a reference to iMatch. So far, so good, but I can’t promise you that I haven’t, for example, totally broken the uninstall feature.

Follow my lead at your own risk. I take no responsibility for anything that happens if you read this and decide to have a go yourself.

Now, I can relax and shuffle my iMatch shortcuts to my heart’s content.